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Information technology
About: Information technology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 53966 publications have been published within this topic receiving 894134 citations. The topic is also known as: IT & I.T..
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TL;DR: A survey of the different security risks that pose a threat to the cloud is presented and a new model targeting at improving features of an existing model must not risk or threaten other important features of the current model.
2,511 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the resource-based theory as a means of analyzing sustainability and develop a model based on this resourcebased view of the firm, which is then applied to four attributes of IT, i.e., capital requirements, proprietary technology, technical IT skills, and managerial IT skills.
Abstract: The concept of IT as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by IT applications is not well-explained. This work discusses the resource-based theory as a means of analyzing sustainability and develops a model founded on this resource-based view of the firm. This model is then applied to four attributes of IT -- capital requirements, proprietary technology, technical IT skills, and managerial IT skills -- which might be sources of sustained competitive advantage. From this resource-based analysis, we conclude that managerial IT skills is the only one of these attributes that can provide sustainability.
2,426 citations
28 Oct 2010
TL;DR: This handbook illustrates how recommender systems can support the user in decision-making, planning and purchasing processes, and works for well known corporations such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and AT&T.
Abstract: The explosive growth of e-commerce and online environments has made the issue of information search and selection increasingly serious; users are overloaded by options to consider and they may not have the time or knowledge to personally evaluate these options. Recommender systems have proven to be a valuable way for online users to cope with the information overload and have become one of the most powerful and popular tools in electronic commerce. Correspondingly, various techniques for recommendation generation have been proposed. During the last decade, many of them have also been successfully deployed in commercial environments. Recommender Systems Handbook, an edited volume, is a multi-disciplinary effort that involves world-wide experts from diverse fields, such as artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, information technology, data mining, statistics, adaptive user interfaces, decision support systems, marketing, and consumer behavior. Theoreticians and practitioners from these fields continually seek techniques for more efficient, cost-effective and accurate recommender systems. This handbook aims to impose a degree of order on this diversity, by presenting a coherent and unified repository of recommender systems major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications. Extensive artificial applications, a variety of real-world applications, and detailed case studies are included. Recommender Systems Handbook illustrates how this technology can support the user in decision-making, planning and purchasing processes. It works for well known corporations such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and AT&T. This handbook is suitable for researchers and advanced-level students in computer science as a reference.
2,401 citations
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28 Feb 2008
TL;DR: Shirky as mentioned in this paper discusses how social tools support group organization and communication in an entirely new way, one that was previously impossible, by including anecdotes from users of social media sites like WordPress and Blogspot, and how they used these social media tools to achieve a purpose.
Abstract: Shirky’s book discusses how social tools support group organization and communication in an entirely new way, one that was previously impossible. He does so by including anecdotes from users of social media sites like WordPress and Blogspot, and how they used these social media tools to achieve a purposebasically, his book looks to exemplify the tool part of social media tools, even though we as a society seem to take this for granted, now.
2,386 citations